notably, telling people this is extremely important. the point of political spending in primaries is not to win. it is to make candidates afraid of you, because they think that you can make them lose.
"Open the Strait of Hormuz. You may not receive the help of any other sovereign nation. Fastest wins."
Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.
This is still the greatest movie related moment of 2025 for me
The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.
Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.
meta being called meta is so incredible. it’d be like if microsoft was called zune or nasa was called challenger
